Sunday, July 20th, 2008

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In fact have you ever wondered what the Jesus and Mary Chain would sound like with synths or with a Cure (think Faith) fixation? Wonder no more. I give you A Place to Bury Strangers.
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This list features a huge variety of search engines that can be useful to students, including tools that find photos, sound effects, summer internships, health and medical information, reference guides, and a lot more.
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urn to this list for 100 useful Web tools that will help you with your career, your sanity and your creativity whenever your write.
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Simple living — aka voluntary simplicity — has just about as many definitions as there are individuals who practice it.
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No doubt about it: Bookmarks make the Web a friendly place. As you collect bookmarks in Safari, you’re able to immediately jump from one site to another with a single click on the Bookmarks menu or the buttons on the Bookmarks bar.
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Welcome to OS X help. If you are new to the Macintosh, OS X, and Apple, you have come to the right place. If this is your first time here, we suggest you start at the beginning, and work your way to the current post, which you see below.
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Integrate a variety of USPS Web Tools™ into your website, shipping operation, or customer service center - for no additional fee! Our Application Program Interfaces (APIs) provide U.S. Postal Service® rates, shipping labels and much more
Tags: api, aptbs, mac osx, searchengines, simplicity, writing, xml
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Monday, November 22nd, 2004
Here is a collection of annotated links about writing for the Web.
- Net Tips for Writers and Designers
- Tips about writing and design from a writer, type designer, and typographer.
- Schnell - Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
- A comprehensive resource covering HTML, XHTML, XML, CGI, and various other technical issues for an audience that may not think of themselves as being technically oriented, but find themselves faced with such tasks.
- WDVL: Writing for the Web
- Covers “proper style, linking etiquette, and the various ways in which writing for the Web differs from writing for print publication.”
- Web Teaching Articles: Writing for the Web
- Web Teaching Articles Writing dartmouth
- Web Writing Basics
- Good straight-forward tips about writing style and presentation issues.
- Writing for effective web pages
- Good one page guide to effective writing for the Web.
- Writing for the Web
- A general purpose guide including detailed technical information and some tips related to readability. Consult this after you’ve done your first or second draft.
- Writing for the Web: An Information Paper from the NOF Advisory Service
- Good resource for writing for people with varying abilities. Topics include “Audiences experiencing barriers to the web, Assessing readability, Disabled people, Writing for disabled people”
- Writing Web Pages
- Some good advice for beginners in terms of downloading files and other nuts-and-bolts issues. Some links are no longer active or point to information that’s out of date.
- Writing Well for the Web - webreference.com
- “Quick and easy tips for non-writers.” Good to use to help you with style and grammar issues.
Tags: web, writing
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